Streetlight Magazine | Erika Raskin | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/erika-raskin/activity/ Activity feed for Erika Raskin. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:56:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 67a4aeb50f2e143bd8cf6e12a66233c8 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42198 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:21 -0400 Good Friday by Kathleen McKitty Harris   My Irish Catholic grandmother—no slouch herself to rosary beads and the Stations of the Cross—had a friend, Wilma, who was far more pious than […]

]]> 835e5318554a2a3fe6e861d451ceab2b Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41356 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:49 -0400 Distances by Barbara Baer I’d already missed two periods before I went to Planned Parenthood in Berkeley. I knew the result before a woman asked if I wanted counseling. She h […]

]]> cf5135cd06dbeebd3e49d82f30eeaca5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41976 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:00:19 -0400 Deconstructing Unicorns and Mermaids by Deborah M. Prum My four-year-old granddaughter, “Zoe”, lives out-of-state. We often meet via Zoom. She and I share a screen and explore her burning questions by […]

]]> 0b83e615c8f99ec7c7b887c8358640e6 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40703 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:00:53 -0500 Adrienne by Lisa Ben-Shoshan   She is a large woman. In another place or circumstance, she would have been the woman in the flowery housedress with fluffy mules on her feet. […]

]]> d7305cdb5d7c5afcbb563b6cf1f15db3 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41115 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:00:33 -0500 Holding Onto The Past Through Fiction by Virginia Pye What happens to the homes where we once lived? Homes we left behind, in childhood when it wasn’t a choice, as an adult when it was necessary for w […]

]]> ad689e62e026c17257a61efd24aed0f4 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40707 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:00:14 -0500 So Be It by Tyler Scott Spring. Finally. After several snowstorms, ice, and being stuck in the house for days on end, Louise couldn’t wait to get in her yard. The daffodils h […]

]]> 7550ea19c16b2d24f1bec81311d959f5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40989 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:00:14 -0500 By Shirley's Side by Peter Wallace The sixty-year-old woman is sleeping at the moment, so I sit on a worn brown couch in the family waiting room down the hall from Shirley. It’s not t […]

]]> 86d764b51fdf3ff52d3de19e6b5e93c7 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40508 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:00:59 -0500 Cheesecake by Con Chapman Mark didn’t want to go to Jackie and Jonathan’s—he had too much studying to do before the end of the semester—but Marci insisted. “You can’t stu […]

]]> bae3a18ffd8cc20dd2ce37a4ca716aba Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40576 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:43 -0500 Puppet and Master by Karris Rae   X/@/20X÷ Today the puppeteer cut my strings. Then he left without a word. It feels strange to move my arms on my own. I opened every plastic p […]

]]> b237ce8f370e1ccbb66bd88e013856a9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41431 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:30:51 -0500 Complicity—A True Fiction Of Now by Erika Raskin Lissy is already dressed, her dolls arranged next to the bed in the space that is sometimes a boat, sometimes a park, and often a doctor’s office. T […]

]]> 5998bdf9a90190b9bb4d88b501177b4d Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39910 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:44 -0500 Grater by Debby Mayer   “There’s something you should know,” was how he would put it. He would say this while she was doing something else—years later, in a Solana B […]

]]> 0ef54e138dae8bbaa0532fb058b1fd65 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41076 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:00:23 -0400 The Taste of Copper Pennies by Tim Collyer Tim Collyer is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Flash Fiction Contest Career Day smells of bleach and gravy. Wrong and familiar at […]

]]> 8730b3dbb7287cd3f06a44b01e17c32f Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41303 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:00:18 -0400 Night, Night Sleepy Heathen by Erika Raskin So, pretty much every old saw about old age is 100% true. There’s crepitus (the medical onomatopoeia-ous description of creaky joints), and the i […]

]]> c3e58a592a0f6445b04360badc21c442 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41089 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:00:38 -0400 A Special Place in Hell by Christine Wilcox Christine Wilcox is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Flash Fiction Contest “I’m not doubting you,” the Angel said to the Demon. “But wh […]

]]> 685950e7654ba69b410d9199e4db004e Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41260 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:59 -0400 The Wrong Turn On My Career Path, From Which I'm Still Recovering A Quarter Century Later by Erika Raskin Years ago, before I decided to bite the bullet and embrace the soul crushing rejection that often goes with Being A Writer, I decided to try my hand […]

]]> 31833467e623b6225bd511a5cf903fdd Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39578 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:00:07 -0400 The Secret Garden by Irina Moga I am back in Seoul after a fourteen-hour flight, fresh off the airport shuttle and into the city center, at the Nine Tree Hotel check-in desk. It’s a […]

]]> aad44ebc27cd3f25cdfde1c69d1a47e9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40984 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:00:20 -0400 It’s Fall (ish) And The Flash Fiction Results Are In! by Erika Raskin and Mary Esselman   The school bus is squeaking past again, there’s a pumpkin/watermelon cage match in the produce aisle and — most critically — the annual influx […]

]]> c0da311092f79f4ac13bfd0e2fcfeb5d Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40993 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:00:48 -0400 What Do Dogs Do All Day? by Erika Raskin   Trixie Dougan Bijou Bellman was my mom’s dachshound when she was a kid. Though extremely short, Trixie had a rich and independent life. She […]

]]> 24c0b3e379d94f0e1d05e071b0bea0ac Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39939 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:00:16 -0400 We All Have Our Problems E. H. Jacobs   You and your wife are sitting in your therapist’s waiting room. You look at the door, paranoid that someone you know will come in and you’ll atte […]

]]> 7a628f72cae02441d346a33dbcb3ec68 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39748 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:21 -0400 HWY 20 at 30 Bottles a Minute by M. R. Whitt   I’d thank the heavens my shift is over but I can’t think straight long enough to do it. I don’t even remember pulling past the gates of the […]

]]> a9602e6e8d3a91e1a0e6508062f07637 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40280 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:00:28 -0400 Talk To Strangers by Bree Luck Two years ago, in the pocket of time between Thanksgiving and the onslaught of holiday chaos, I spent a week with my grandmother, Mimi, at her home on […]

]]> 5a3e1e1b3cd0222856bb88698725a857 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39640 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:24 -0400 Mulioo Tebe by Clare Rolens In June of 2007, I watched the movie Once with you. We’d rented the DVD from Blockbuster, the way people did then. We were twenty-one, so dinner m […]

]]> 2ef0e942d1d2de6b0eb486ee52f1d0b0 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40191 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:00:50 -0400 Don't Arrive Before You Get There by Deborah M. Prum My writing mantra used to be, Fine is good enough. I made sure whatever I sent out was the best it could be. However, I worked fulltime and was the […]

]]> a228ade666d692ddaf1de16fbe2409e7 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38669 Fri, 30 May 2025 12:00:20 -0400 The Spirit Room by Claire Massey The spirit room is cold, not morgue-cold but goosebump chilly from October on. Maddie zips her hoodie and pulls the under-desk heater dangerously […]

]]> bdf55e793ce4343866de349e700c23c0 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39225 Fri, 09 May 2025 08:00:24 -0400 The Art of the Dealer by Eric Lande After lunch, Donald’s art dealer, Regina Slabokoff, entered his office in a state of agitated grace. Donald’s office had a style—a Mojo s […]

]]> 39ce1e008a1dfdb9590fe278e6dc9faa Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38800 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:00:17 -0400 Hard Water by S. E. Wilson   The appointment was made for five-thirty so my wife Polly and I could both be there.  She worked in an office in town and I was working from h […]

]]> b2bd96845d2f7205ce74ce8d0c802fd8 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39615 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0500 Lily is Safe by Elisa Wood Coming down from the redwood forest, where majestic trees defy rusted Coke signs and dead gas stations, we drive, curve after curve, in daylight […]

]]> e6c4a7743aba4886815309d31c7b0d8b Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38601 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:48 -0500 Ground Zero by Lynn Bushell   9 a.m. ‘M’ comes out of his flat. I see his head first, coming up the basement steps. He needs a haircut. And he’s wearing the same shirt he had […]

]]> 4ee1dab72e498cb1a5967731dba229f5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39633 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:00:23 -0500 Fragments From Returning to the Suburban Neighborhood of My Youth by Sharon Gelman Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash. I. a. This morning, I saw a creature standing in the road. The size of a small dog with rust-colored fur. […]

]]> 6812f640e2f0224db4744121c5757c4c Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38970 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:00:20 -0500 Krenshaw and the Tale of Memphis by Karys Rhea The fear of losing you torments me.  Krenshaw’s roommate, Annie Alessandra, was dating Tommy Stalwart. Krenshaw had introduced them a few months ba […]

]]> 0d61de6475627f35ca678c565a83e28e Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39601 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:00:36 -0500 Don’t Let Anyone Break Your Creative Heart by Deborah M. Prum My vocation is writing, but my avocation is painting, mostly portraits. I belong to a Facebook group dedicated to showing the work of artists who are […]

]]> 70fce0d182f660a5b403b0c3889db1da Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38061 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:00:54 -0500 The New House by Dawn Abeita It rained the day before so burying the cat wasn’t as hard as she thought it would be. She found a shovel in the shed, and wrapped her pet in an old t […]

]]> e58acf7822622aa2bf435e8821748ca8 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38183 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:00:39 -0500 New Cut Hay by Lawrence F. Farrar Immigration Service Camp, Kenedy, Texas – May 1944 Nearly two years had passed since a Peruvian policeman pointed a pistol at him and declared T […]

]]> 63a8b71416b4ecc4ba820c5262421665 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38054 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:00:54 -0500 Fountains by Amy Foster Myer They were back at the fountain as she had promised, Nicky’s sweet round belly against the marble ledge as he tried to reach for the p […]

]]> d6a67a7ee1e040adb3e99575aa5ba956 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37853 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:00:29 -0500 Scumbling by Thomas Mampalam   Beginning a painting was the hardest part. Each time, there was an anxious confrontation with the blank white canvas as he stood before the […]

]]> 3094ec67d1b538a8240343910a756aab Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39338 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:00:33 -0500 The Art Of Unconventional Wit — With An AI Assist by Erika Raskin Photo by Yucel Moran on Unsplash .   My website recently asked if I’d like some assistance composing a blog post. As I’m hopelessly […]

]]> f1d01cbbbbd21271d446189565f42ccc Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39309 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:00:40 -0500 Fast Art by Kate Bennis As writers, artists, creators, we can sometimes lose sight of our purpose in the struggle to generate our work.  Our culture, certainly, adds to the […]

]]> eadd3f3076fbe7265a2fb639e44568ac Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38987 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:26 -0400 Midnight by Cyndy Muscatel Cyndy Muscatel is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest   Dressed only in her pajamas and Ugg slippers, Rebecca […]

]]> 53011290e356b12f069444a0743767fc Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38991 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:16 -0400 Holidays by Dominik Slusarczyk Dominik Slusarczyk is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest   We stay up all night drinking. When we eventually […]

]]> d894d056990f76cfb4eed80d70ccebef Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39129 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:00:30 -0400 5 Writing Pitfalls To Avoid by Erika Raskin 1. Losing The Plot Think of being unable to tell someone what your work-in-progress is about as a seriously suspicious mole; a flashing warning […]

]]> 5654565bf0e407dabe9f968c8fa4b5e9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39020 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:00:55 -0400 A Matter Of Time by Janis Jaquith Fiction is the lie that tells the truth. The truth is that there was a fire, six people died, and it was intentionally set. The spirit of Lisa […]

]]> 28fea12b0ccc5ec1631e840e338d5cf6 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37831 Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:00:22 -0400 Last Words by Caroline Malone I should have turned on the porch light, but the bulb is dead, I said, I had to leave her alone in the bathroom so I could stand outside and watch for […]

]]> f20e6de8fcb41ae1ae8710737c6439a6 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38910 Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:00:31 -0400 2024 Flash Fiction Contest by Erika Raskin   Once again, we had the opportunity to read a (virtual) stack of flash fiction pieces that have enlarged our worlds—and we are grateful. As us […]

]]> 3858294e8c91658bdcb7a9392e158ace Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38875 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:00:58 -0400 Tips For Aging Women by Christine McDowell Tucker Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you’re considering getting old. We don’t recommend this course of action, of course, because the risks […]

]]> a8ece2ba7db4c9bcc2245e169f62432a Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37277 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:00 -0400 Downstairs by Gary Duehr   What’s happening to me? Downstairs I can hear my wife Ann with our two-year-old Isabella, their sounds bubbling up from the kitchen. The […]

]]> 1f63778833e66b6fb94fcb14fe0d3082 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38548 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:00:18 -0400 Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson We write for a target audience. Readers differ in their demographics as well as their literary tastes. When my novel, Never, was published, I began […]

]]> 1e8666622be75775672323c19b6c1721 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38768 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:00:53 -0400 Writing Through Autocracy by Karol Lagodzki   The one and only time I put a knife in my pocket heading out to church was on Sunday, December 13, 1981. My mother, a single parent, was […]

]]> 6292b5722286bdd47d31cd1f7c5e335f Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37709 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:00:25 -0400 A Stone by Debbie Bennett It was a flat grey stone, the kind you found in tourist shops, with pre-set words. What a strange gift from Andrea, I’d thought, and plunked it into m […]

]]> 4714dacfe17fcc8719d97fa0479b0f89 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37401 Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:00:40 -0400 Birthday Boys by Will Underland   When he woke it was with awareness that it was his birthday and thus with an ebullience lacking on most other days when waking and rising were […]

]]> d1c9a8014e192d6955e4a017f15dd05b Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37367 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:00:07 -0400 The Secrets We Kept in Our Condo Association by I. S. Berry It’s hard to know when it started—the hollow feeling when I entered my building. The unease as I unlocked the front door, like I was entering a str […]

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